Links for 10-06-2008
Bumper crop: short fiction markets! age-marketing fiction! music festival overstretch! Plus masses more good stuff …
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“Every few months, leagues of Chicken Littles run to the rooftop to proclaim the impending death of short fiction.” Yup. And then the articles about the fight-back don’t mention the ‘zine you run. And you try hard not to sulk.
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“To write as well as I can, and then find someone at the door turning readers away, is something I find simply repugnant. It’s based on a one-dimensional view of growth …” Yeah, but it sells *merchandise*, Phil. Shheeeesh.
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“This all comes down to the moment a consumer hears a record, and the fear that if the record is more dynamic, the consumer won’t know to just turn up the volume.” The Music Biz – treating you like a retard since before you were born.
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“Many of the largest festivals are controlled by the American promoter Live Nation, which signed up acts including Madonna for $120 million (£60 million) and Jay-Z for $150 million.” In case you needed that desperate smell to be explained.
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“Like Japanese soldiers fighting the Second World War long after it ended, some still draw a cordon sanitaire around “literature” to protect it from “genre”, regardless of how closely the two commingle.”
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“Embed a Dynamic Feed Control on your web page and let your users see customized views of the feeds. Customize how the dynamic feed control should be displayed, and this wizard will write the code for you.” Nice!
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“Does advertising drugs directly to patients provide valuable health information, as pharmaceutical companies claim? Or does it just make certain drugs seem attractive, even if they aren’t necessarily the best choice for the person concerned?”
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“It is also an industry undergoing a massive financial boom as investors pour billions of speculative dollars into its start-up firms, similar in many ways to the dotcom revolution of the 1990s …” Sterling/Veridian were right.
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“The privatisation of the Labour Party, mooted here and discussed in the post below, may or may not be a joke. What is well past a joke is the need for creative market-based solutions to the problems of the farther left.”
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“… most of all, I think, it’s a scary commentary on the vapid, rah-rah, ultimately meaningless corporate wankery we see every time we visit a large company’s website. [...] And when Disney is doing that, it’s the end of an era.”
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“The billboards include small hidden cameras that try to determine general demographic, and then the billboard will play a video add targeted to you.”
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“An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.”
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